[The Romany Rye by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookThe Romany Rye CHAPTER XL 10/11
I do hate that Scott, and all his vile gang of Lowlanders and Highlanders.
The black corps, the fekete regiment of Matyjas Hunyadi, was worth all the Scots, high or low, that ever pretended to be soldiers; and would have sent them all headlong into the Black Sea, had they dared to confront it on its shores; but why be angry with an ignorant, who couples together Thor and Tzernebock? Ha! ha!" "You have read his novels ?" said I. "Yes, I read them now and then.
I do not speak much English, but I can read it well, and I have read some of his romances, and mean to read his Napoleon, in the hope of finding Thor and Tzernebock coupled together in it, as in his high-flying Ivanhoe." "Come," said the jockey, "no more Dutch, whether high or low.
I am tired of it; unless we can have some English, I am off to bed." "I should be very glad to hear some English," said I; "especially from your mouth.
Several things which you have mentioned have awakened my curiosity.
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